Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
USA, b. 1982, Long Beach, CA, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Like a Breath of Fresh Water, installation view, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin, September 22 – December 2, 2023. Photo by Melissa Nuñez.
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork: Untitled
Portland State University Schnitzer School of Art
2000 SW 5th Ave, Portland, OR 97201
Tues, Weds, Fri: 12:00 - 5:00 PM; Thurs: 2:00-7:00 PM
About the Project
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork is a Los Angeles–based artist whose installations use sculpture and acoustics to explore how sound shapes bodily experience and social relations. For the Triennial, she presents Variations in Mass 4, a monumental, "breathing" inflatable sculpture at PSU’s Schnitzer School of Art building. Modeled after a mid-century Japanese garden lantern from her own family history, the work meditates on cultural transmission and the idea of authenticity. Accompanied by a sound piece recorded at Portland Japanese Garden and composed with musician Liz Harris (aka Grouper), the inflatable oscillates between animation and collapse, challenging perceptions of permanence and the circulation of personal history in public space.
Artist Bio
Born in Long Beach, California (1982), Gork’s hybrid practice combines sound installation, sculpture, and performance to reconfigure the traditional hierarchies between audience, performer, and architecture. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and furthered her research into the history of acoustics and computer music at Stanford University.
An internationally recognized artist, her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Empty Gallery (Hong Kong), the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas Austin, the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, François Ghebaly, 356 Mission, The Lab, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has participated in major global group exhibitions and biennials, including the Singapore Biennial, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the 13th Taipei Biennial, the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA 2020, the SculptureCenter (New York), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and the V-A-C Foundation (Moscow). Gork is the recipient of prestigious contemporary art honors, including the Gold Art Prize (2025), the Roy Lichtenstein Award from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts (2025), a Joan Mitchell Fellowship (2023), and an Art + Technology Lab Grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Like a Breath of Fresh Water, installation view, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin, September 22 – December 2, 2023. Photo by Melissa Nuñez.
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Like a Breath of Fresh Water, installation view, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas at Austin, September 22 – December 2, 2023. Photo by Melissa Nuñez.